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  • Physical Chemistry
  • Materials Science
  • Chemical Physics

Background:

  • Deep eutectic solvents (DES) are emerging as tunable media with unique properties.
  • Understanding the dynamical behavior of solutes in DES is crucial for their applications.
  • Acetamide-urea DES offers a nonionic platform for studying solvent dynamics.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the temperature-dependent translational diffusion and solvation dynamics of a dipolar dye in acetamide-urea DES.
  • To characterize the viscosity coupling of relaxation times and assess the dynamical heterogeneity of the DES.
  • To compare experimental findings with established theoretical models like the Stokes-Einstein relation.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized three time-resolved techniques: fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS), transient absorption (TA) spectroscopy, and optical Kerr effect (OKE) spectroscopy.
  • FCS measured translational diffusion, revealing fractional viscosity dependence (exponent 0.758).
  • Femtosecond TA and OKE spectroscopy probed solvation dynamics, identifying multi-exponential responses and collective solvent modes.

Main Results:

  • Translational diffusion showed moderate deviation from the Stokes-Einstein relation, with a fractional viscosity dependence.
  • Solvation dynamics were triexponential, dominated by a ~100 fs component, with slower ~5 ps and ~50 ps components.
  • Rotational diffusion lifetimes also exhibited fractional power dependence on viscosity, deviating from the Stokes-Einstein-Debye prediction.

Conclusions:

  • The acetamide-urea DES is characterized as a moderately heterogeneous medium.
  • Both translational and rotational dynamics display fractional viscosity dependencies, indicating complex solvent-solute interactions.
  • The findings highlight the importance of considering solvent heterogeneity in DES for predicting solute behavior.